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...company competing against the giants of the field, there was nothing modest about the announcement made last week by KMS Industries Inc. of Ann Arbor, Mich. The firm claimed that its scientists had briefly sustained a laser-generated fusion reaction and called its work a "definitive step" toward taming thermonuclear fusion-the same process that produces the explosive power of the hydrogen bomb and the vast heat and radiation...
...Indeed, an AEC spokesman called the feat "a small but significant initial step." But at week's end doubt was growing among some nuclear scientists that the laboratory had done anything more than Soviet and U.S. researchers had previously announced. In fact, it seemed quite possible that true thermonuclear fusion had not really occurred at all during the Ann Arbor experiments...
...brief but clearly detectable fusion reaction. Since then, their experiments have been repeated-and improved upon-in a number of countries, including the U.S., France, Britain and West Germany. But scientists are not yet certain that the burst of neutrons that characterizes such reactions is produced by true thermonuclear fusion or by the collision of relatively few fast-moving atomic nuclei in the compressed deuterium or tritium...
...that was frighteningly clear. Unless city officials paid the letter writer $1 million and assured him safe passage out of the country, he would set off an H-bomb in the middle of town. To make matters worse, the note was accompanied by a credible-looking diagram of a thermonuclear weapon. Consulted by city officials, experts at the Atomic Energy Commission refused to say for certain that the would-be bomber was not fully capable of carrying out his threat...
...Alamos Scientific Laboratory in New Mexico will soon give this process its first test. If it works, says Robert Rex, president of Republic Geothermal Inc., "the energy could provide all the additional power the nation will require until thermonuclear fusion and solar sources are developed." But until the "dry rock" technique is shown to be feasible, geothermal power seems bound to remain only a marginal, supplemental answer to U.S. energy problems...